Nature Walk Subdivision FLUM Amendment

A Meadows resident since 2000 who bought her home facing the golf course, she urged commissioners to put themselves in residents' shoes and suggested converting the course to a walking park like one in Jasper, Indiana, rather than rezoning.

An 80-year-old resident who moved to the neighborhood for the golf course's serenity, she begged the commission to reconsider any rezoning of the area.

A Meadows resident focused on traffic: Harvard Road's dangerous 390 intersection, construction trucks through residential streets past the children's park, and the difficulty of school runs. He asked that the application be tabled until traffic can be rerouted to the Transmitter light.

A Waterford Drive historian who drew on Tyndall rebuild construction logistics to warn about years of out-of-town contractor traffic through a neighborhood full of children and pedestrians.

He cited an asserted 15% home-value loss for households that lose an adjoining golf course, multiplying it across roughly 90 nearby homes.

A Ferrell Way resident who asked whether fire and police had reviewed the plan and warned that narrow neighborhood access roads would hurt emergency response times.

A golf instructor at the course who opposed the rezoning, noting it's the only affordable public course this side of the bridge, it teaches local kids, and it hosts tracked turtle habitat — and zoning is far easier to change than to change back.

A Ferrell Lane resident flatly opposed to any connection to his street, recounting how a 1995 citizens committee forced revisions to the original Nature Walk plan that left the Ferrell Lane connection out — and he hopes it stays out.

A Meadows resident who questioned the sequencing — worried the zoning gets changed before traffic flow is figured out, and noting new drivers between two large schools raise safety concerns.

She read a letter opposing the concept plan because a proposed street would face her driveway and L-shaped house — bringing safety hazards, headlight glare into her home at night, construction vehicles blocking her driveway, and an end to the quiet street where elderly neighbors walk.

The Meadows HOA president asked for a deferment and a package review of the application materials so homeowners can review them before any decision.

Speaking for Mill Bayou from the corner of Bob Jones Drive and North College Boulevard, he said all the traffic would pass his corner and simply stated he does not approve.

The first Landings resident to speak, she flagged that the staff analysis covers Mill Bayou drainage but not the Landings' chronic post-Hurricane Michael drainage failures, and asked the city to guarantee fixes before approving 116 more houses.

She said people move to Lynn Haven for its lower density and natural areas, and warned that if the developer's plan fails, apartments could follow and drive down everyone's home values.

A FEMA-experienced civil engineer on Harvard Boulevard who detailed flood zone problems — about 25% of proposed lots in flood zones, the land serving as drainage for surrounding neighborhoods — plus the 2028-2029 traffic light timeline, the ~200-lot risk if the land were resold at minimum lot sizes, and the property value jump from $2 million to $20 million that raises questions about the real motive.

He noted a nearly identical proposal was unanimously rejected in 2015 and asked commissioners to find out why before deciding anything now.

Speaking 'for the kids,' she urged the commission to consider youth recreation, echoing the golf instructor's point that kids have nowhere public to go on this side of the bridge.

In a second appearance, she acknowledged the commission's narrow rezoning question but reminded them that once rezoned, no one knows what happens next: 'our lives are in your hands tonight.'